Recent developments of the nucleon-nucleon (NN) and three-nucleon (3N) interactions, derived
from chiral effective field theory, have yielded major
progress [1]}, [2]}, [3]}. These, together with the
utilization of massively parallel computing resources (e.g.,
see [4]}, [5]}, [6]}), have placed ab initio
large-scale simulations at the frontier of nuclear structure and reaction explorations.
Here we focus on the use of the ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM)
[7]}, [8]}, [9]} and symmetry-adapted no-core shell model (SA-NCSM)
[10]}, [11]} to provide the relevant structure inputs.
